"242 people have died in Baghdad "

"242 people have died in Baghdad "
by Guido Friday May 16, 2003 at 04:55 PM

"Statistics unpublished until today reveal the stark facts: 242 people have died in Baghdad in just over three weeks, almost all from bullet wounds. It is an epidemic, and it is getting worse. "

"Dr Fa'ak Amin Bakr, director of the city mortuary, says 242 people have died in the past 25 days, of whom more than nine out of 10 had been shot. He says that before the invasion Baghdad had an average of one death a day caused by gunshot wounds."
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=406657

Cholera breaks out in Basra

"WHO spokeswoman Fadela Chaib told a briefing in Basra on Wednesday that tests in Kuwait had confirmed the presence of
cholera in four samples collected from Iraq. Preliminary Iraqi tests earlier this month identified 18 cases of cholera.
"The main concern is that the confirmed cases are just a small proportion of the overall number of cases," Chaib said."
http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/Swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=1857492

Torture in Iraq
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&edition=&q=torture+iraq

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